Berlin, Germany
Dahlem-Dorf U-Bahn Station Benches
A traditional U-Bahn station in Berlin gets a string of rather untraditional benches.
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Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Berlin, Germany
Carillon Berlin-Tiergarten
One of the world's heaviest musical instruments towers within a popular urban park.
Seattle, Washington
Freeway Park
The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.
Seattle, Washington
James Turrell Skyspace
An enclosed rotunda at the Henry Art Gallery in which viewers can look up and see the uninterrupted sky.
New Delhi, India
Agrasen ki Baoli
A startling, centuries-old subterranean marvel hides in plain sight.
Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
Bensberg Old Castle
This strange building looks like a medieval fortress crashed into a 1960s Brutalist office block.
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Las Vegas, Nevada
'Akhob'
James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.
Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin
Wizard Quest
A theme park attraction designed to turn your children into LARPers.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Dig This
A new kind of theme park for adults off the Las Vegas Strip.
New York, New York
The High Line
Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.
New York, New York
New York's Hidden Tropical Forest
A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.
Berlin, Germany
Haus Schwarzenberg Street Art Alley
A narrow passage next to a cafe leads to a courtyard exploding with murals, tags, and paste-ups.
New York, New York
Preserved Remnants of 17th Century New York
Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.
New York, New York
Castle Williams
In its day this historic fort held 100 cannons pointed in almost every direction to protect New York.
New York, New York
Spring Street Salt Shed
This simple Manhattan salt house is artfully shaped... well, like a giant granule of salt.
Permanently Closed
New York, New York
Carsten Höller Slide
Three-story slide through the New Museum.
New York, New York
The SeaGlass Carousel
Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.
New York, New York
The American Merchant Mariner's Memorial
Twice a day one of these tragic bronze mariners drowns with the tide to remember all those the sea has taken.
New York, New York
The Elevated Acre
Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.
New York, New York
Dream House
La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.
New York, New York
Trinity Place Bank Vault Bar
This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.
Boston, Massachusetts
Kelleher Rose Garden
One of the now-less-hidden floral gems of the "Emerald Necklace."
Washington, D.C.
National Bonsai Museum
One of the dwarven trees dates back to 1625 and survived the Hiroshima bombing.
Frederiksberg, Denmark
Cisternerne
A 19th-century subterranean reservoir repurposed as a contemporary art cave.
